There will never be another Voyager spacecraft mission to the outer planets. Or at least there will never be another such mission happening in the lifetime of anyone now on Earth. That’s because, back in

The astonishing ferocity of Hurricane Harvey may mark the moment when the discussion linking extreme weather with climate change got seriously widespread. At The Intercept, Naomi Klein says there hasn’t been much talk about climate

HUMAN GMOS ARE HERE, FINALLY We’ve known this was coming for decades, at least since the 1970s. Until recently, though, the technical hurdles facing human genetic engineering made it seem like a distant prospect, something

GLIOBLASTOMA AND OBAMACARE: THE POLITICS OF BRAIN CANCER LiveScience’s Sara Miller provides clinical explanation about the type of brain cancer Senator John McCain is suffering from, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). But the short version is that

Scientists and others are pushing back pretty hard against David Wallace-Wells’s doomsday portrait of climate change, the cover story in the July 10-23 issue of New York magazine. (No, not the New Yorker. Nor the

JOHN OLIVER IS ANTI THE ANTI-VAXXERS Blogging commentary about John Oliver’s take on the anti-vaccine movement last Sunday (June 25) was, of course, nearly all positive. The comedian devoted almost his whole half-hour HBO show

OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS? It’s a little startling that so many of the media reports of the very old human fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco accepted without question that these people were members of our

AFTER THE MARCH, WHAT WILL/SHOULD COME NEXT? It was not often spoken of explicitly, but surely one goal of the March for Science was a call for respect. Complaints about mingy research budgets were plentiful,